Simple History U-2 Incident (1960) Posted: February 18, 2025 | Last updated: February 18, 2025 On May 1, 1960, a U.S. U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace, exposing a top-secret ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...

As previously announced, it was known that a U-2 plane was missing ... there is some reason to believe that the plane in question was not shot down at high altitude. The normal agencies of ...